shimizu
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Post by shimizu on Aug 25, 2005 14:54:40 GMT -5
Okay, I've been given the go ahead to make this, so I will.
Shimizu stepped into a room he hadn't noticed before. It was filled with books. There were shelves lining the walls, with shelves in the middle of the room as well. Shimizu sighed, "I think it's safe to say I've found the library." he looked around. Every shelf was full of books. Not one shelf had an empty space on it. Shimizu wandered around, getting a good feel for the place.
He found some couches and chairs in the center of the room. "This must be for when you find a good book and decide to study in peace and quiet. It's creepy in here." Shimizu flopped into one of the arm chairs and hopped about a little. "Comfortable." he mumbled. He grabbed a book off a shelf close by.
He began reading it, immediately he shut it and put it back. "Well... It's safe to say that those were very powerful spells... that I will learn later. Right now, I'll look for an easier book." he stood up and looked around for a simpler book.
I believe the magic trainer is on his/her way.
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Calypso
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Post by Calypso on Aug 25, 2005 16:09:04 GMT -5
Calypso and co. entered the library for a look around. Dusty. Calypso complained mentally. Shimizu must be slacking off. He's supposed to maintain it, too. Putz. Calypso continued to look around, breaking off from the two who accompanied him. He looked around in amazement, some of these books must be thousands of years old. This is an old Grand Library. It's a collection of many knowledgable history boodks, as well as powerful spells, and healing as well. Not to mention the extensive sources on great heroes of the past, and engineering labour. This place has it all.
Calypso tried not to let the marvel of it all visible in his expression. This will be a wonderful starting point. Of course, Shimizu will have to create his own spells as well, and not just learn them. He had one hard task ahead of him. About as hard as the Warfare General path would be to someone not accustomed to physical fighting. If Shimizu truely was cut out for magic, then this should be more fun than a chore.
Calypso looked around the Grand Library. There were three levels. The first and main floor was in a circular shape. It was large based with high reaching walls, all lined with shelves. No wall space to speak of. The center area had a circle of towering shelves, with a suitable lounge in the center for reading and studying. There was also a large scale desk, fitting to hold many reference books on it's surface.
Quarre wondered where Calypso had gone off to. He never sticks through anything, I swear. Quarre and Calypso were escorting the clans new librarian/cleric to his post in the library. "Shimizu!" Quarre called out to the large library, "Are you in here?"\
Calypso looked up to the second level. On the first, one of the book cases was stair-like, leading up to the second level, which was dedicated to historians and engineering. A similar staircase lead up to the third and final level. This was dedicated to healing methods, through both magic and potion/alchemy. Anything not on the higher levels, was on the first. Calypso had a bird's eye view from that height, and could see a door way leading to the second half of the magic training facility...
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shimizu
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Post by shimizu on Aug 25, 2005 18:19:05 GMT -5
Shimizu looked up from a book he was reading, "Yeah Quarre! I'm here!" He got up and walked over to Quarre and the librarian, "Who's this?" he asked. He noticed the book he was holding was dusty, "Erm... I haven't dusted yet, I've been exploring." he smiled, "Anyway, what's up?" OOC:It's kinda short, but I needed to interact with Quarre.
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Post by Calypso on Aug 25, 2005 18:35:07 GMT -5
Quarre smiled brightly when she saw Shimizu. "This is a friend of my cousins. (he doesn't like me). His name is Maomarka. He's the one who taught Calypso everything that he knows about magic and alchemy. Calypso said he'd be perfectly fitted to working as our librarian." Quarre continued smiling, and pushed Maomarka forward.
"Hello," he said, unsure of himslef. He was older than Calypso (1600) but didn't look it. He was human, but hadn't aged in two millenia. He had studied magic and alchemy from those days on. He was very experienced, and excentric, to say the least. And he wasn't fond of people.
"You probably have never heard of him before," Quarre continued, talking to Shimizu, "but that is because he prefers his solitude, and has pretty much been living as a hermit for the last millenia." She smiled brightly once more. "Ok, you two should get acquainted, I'll go have a look around, and maybe clean a little." Quarre left Maomarka with Shimizu (or vice versa) and went to have a look around, and find the Calypso she had lost 5 minutes ago.
Maomarka relaxed vsibly once Quarre was gone. He looked at Shimizu, "You're the one in charge of the magic training, right? I'll take care of the learning and library, you watch out for the actual practice. What did you want me to do?"
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Post by Dedomi on Aug 25, 2005 21:41:21 GMT -5
Dedomi walked into the old library. His eyes glowed in wonder at the amount of old dusty volumes, records, and books in every direction. He marveled at the thousands of spells right in front of him. Excited, he immedietly grabbed a thick volume, opened it up and plumped himself on a comfortable chair. His nose two inches from the page he began reading with enthusiam.
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shimizu
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Post by shimizu on Aug 26, 2005 1:30:41 GMT -5
Shimizu grinned at Quarre, as she left him with Maomarka. "Well, I'm Shimizu Uziki, it's nice to meet you Maomarka." He extended his hand, since Maomarka hated people, Shimizu probably didn't get a hand shake. Shimizu looked around the place, "Well... I wouldn't mind if you made some signs for the shelves so we know what section is which." Shimizu looked at all the shelves, "I'll get started on the dusting. All the books are covered in it, and it's my job to fix that. So, off I go." Shimizu walked off. He noticed Dedomi and his book, "Heh..." Shimizu grinned. Dedomi seemed to like reading alot. Shimizu quickly got to work, wanting to be done before the days end.
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Post by Sabian on Aug 26, 2005 1:41:51 GMT -5
Latias walked into the Grand Library, and it blew him away. He quickly ran over to the center of the room and set down a tray of snacks, (This might be how he enters all the new rooms! . Latias ran around, looking at all the books. He was so hyper, he climbed up the shelves, and that's how he discovered the stair case. He clambered onto it and looked around. He eventually found Calypso, who had entered the extra room... OOC:Again, I know it's short, but my brain is so dead at this time of night...
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Post by Calypso on Aug 26, 2005 3:05:39 GMT -5
Quarre ventured around the grand library. She got lost easy enough without there being a single room the size of this one. It was enormous! She knew that it'd be quite some time before she found her cousin. Sometimes she wondered if he did these things on purpose. Before she could look any further, a book caught her eye. It's bindings were brighter than the rest surrounding it. It was newer, and seemed out of place. She removed the book from its shelvings, and found a comfortable spot in the lounge at the library's center, and began to read.
Calypso entered the mystery door, very much without Shimizu's consent. He was in charge of this training, and Calypso probably needed to seek his permission. He skipped that part. Calypso looked around the room. It was old, like the library. A sort of back room, perhaps storage? No, that had been the physical training center's recent purpose. Calypso found a torch light on the wall and lit it using his fire magic. It started a chain of fires, until the entire room was lit. Calypso looked around the room. It was about as large as the physical training center, perhaps small by a few square feet. It seemed to exist to serve the purpose of testing magical spells and techniques, so as not to damage the environment. The room was enchanted by a containment spell, to do just that.
Maomarka nodded his understanding to Shimizu, and set to work on creating the categorization signs for the shelves.
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Post by Dedomi on Aug 26, 2005 23:34:39 GMT -5
Dedomi dropped the book he was reading and grabbed another. He would be reading as much as he could before considering to do anything. Education before experimentation. He poured into book after book, filling up as much empty room in his head as he could.
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Calypso
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Post by Calypso on Aug 26, 2005 23:47:47 GMT -5
Calypso delved deeper into the mystery room. It was now fully lit, and impressive. It must contain the largest collection of dust bunnies Calypso had ever seen! "SHIMIZU!" Calypso called, hoping the spiritist could hear him from that great a distance. Shimizu normally couldn't hear him when Calypso was right next to him, or maybe that had something to do with Calypso telling him to work...
Calypso continued exploring, knowing he would get a 'WHAT!?' in return from Shimizu, rather than his presence, as desired. Calypso opened another door, a closet. It contained an odd looking dummy. What in the...? Calypso wondered, but then the thing began to move. It's eyes lit up red, and it walked out of the closet. Calypso jumped backward, kicking up a cloud of dust as he did. "What in the world is that?!" The dummy walked to a seemingly preset location, and then stopped moving. Calypso inspected it from a distance, wondering what it was.
Quarre heard Calypso shout for Shimizu, "There he is!" Quarre hopped up the staircases and found the door. She walked up behind Latias, "What's got Calypso so spooked?" She asked, very curious.
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shimizu
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Post by shimizu on Aug 27, 2005 15:30:10 GMT -5
Shimizu cringed when he heard his name called so loudly, "Ooohhhh... what'd I do this time?" he quickly ran up the stair case and joined Calypso in the other room, "Yes? What is it your highness?" he walked in and coughed. "Man, it's dusty in here." he looked around. "I guess I'd better get cleaning... Was this the problem?" he asked. He stood next to Calypso and saw the dummy, "OH!" he exclaimed. "I've seen those before." he went over and inspected it. He blew dust off of the dummy's face.
He looked up at Calypso, "What's the matter? You afraid of a fake dummy?" he was grinning. He poked the doll, "It's not gonna hurt you, these things were made for being pounded on. You're supposed to practice your spells on them." Shimizu looked at Calypso, "See? Nothing to be afraid of." he snickered as he said this.
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Post by Sabian on Aug 27, 2005 15:42:28 GMT -5
Latias was staring at everything, in awe. But when Calypso found the dust bunnies, he hollered for Shimizu, quite loudly. Latias was right behind him at tht point, so he covered his sensetive ears and shook his head around. He rubbed his head afterward and looked at Calypso, "Do you think he heard you?" Calypso went over to a dummy, and it began to move, which scared Calypso, or at least that's what it looked like.
Latias smiled, then Quarre approached him, "Calypso? He's only been surprised by the moving dummy. It's kinda funny." Latias smiled. He watched Shimizu come in, and he laughed at the 'your highness' comment. Latias watched Shimizu snicker at Calypso for being scared by the dummy, and explained what it was. Latias nodded, "Oh, that makes sense..."
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Post by Dedomi on Aug 27, 2005 19:24:20 GMT -5
Dedomi finished his book moments after he heard the call. He decided it would be interesting to find out what was going on. He walked around the library for a moment, still awestruck at the amount of information contained by this library.
He finally made his way to the stairway, and saw Calypso, looking sorta rigid by the door. "Calypso? What's going on?"
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Post by tommy21 on Aug 27, 2005 23:17:03 GMT -5
Tommy wandered into the place, not sure where he was. This Tomb was filled with odd rooms. He walked into a room full of rows and rows of bookshelves. A few people were walkign around by the sound of the place, and he heard soft voices calling to each other somewhere farther into the room. Tommy turned around to walk out of the room, thinking there wasn't much here, when he realized there might be something on magic in here...
Tommy turned around and looked at a few of the shelves, he found a small book labeled with some odd symbols that seemed to signify it was a book on magic. He opened the book and was immediately confused. There were pictures of flames on almost every page. Definately a fire casters book,...or some kind of crazy, deranged novel by a pyromaniac.
Tommy put the book back in and thought to leave again, figuring the other books would be similar,...
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shimizu
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Post by shimizu on Aug 29, 2005 14:15:33 GMT -5
Shimizu looked around the room. This place was definately made for testing magic. He looked over at the dummy. "So they move. Big deal." he went over and tapped it. "Harmless." he went over to a dial on the wall that caught his attention. He looked it over. It was settings for the dummies. He curiously read over the dial, there were settings for the dummy to just stand there and be hit, so people could practice casting. Then there was a setting so you could practice defense magic. Shimizu looked at it carefully.
He turned the dial to the second option. Another dummy came out and created a fire ball. It launched it at Shimizu. Shimizu jumped out of the way, "Oops!" he quickly turned the dial back, "So that's what it did... heh heh heh..."
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